The rally is being put on by Gavin Seim, who didn’t return an email seeking comment.

Sandy Hook Promise, a nonprofit formed to stop gun violence after the Connecticut shootings, released a statement earlier this week criticizing the rally, calling it a “publicity stunt” by protesters “undeterred by facts.”

“An overwhelming majority of Washington voters passed Initiative 594 to close a troubling loophole by applying the existing system of background checks to all gun sales, including sales at gun shows and online,” reads the statement by Nicole Hockley and Mark Barden, members of Sandy Hook Promise and parents who lost children in the shooting.

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